Why HVAC/R is a
great career.
By
North Park
Innovations Group
Young students are graduating around the USA right now
and making decisions toward their career choices. This
was the perfect time for the North Park Innovations team
to ask technicians and business owners to tell us why
HVAC/R (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and
Refrigeration) is a great career choice.
We heard an overwhelming theme, well stated by William
Carman, from Action Electrical & Mechanical Contractors
in Carrollton, Georgia: “The HVAC industry is ever
changing. Great minds all around the world coming
together to create, innovate, and solve one of the most
basic, but yet, sought after human wants: comfort. A
career in HVAC has given me the satisfaction of bringing
comfort to people from family homes, to restaurants, to
hospitals. Having the opportunity to work on equipment
ranging from residential split systems, to ice machines,
to controls and chillers, has brought a great sense of
accomplishment, but most importantly, joy. And at the
end of the day, there’s no better feeling than the joy
of accomplishments!”
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Barry Valentine from Metropolitan Heating & Air in San
Marco, California tells an amazing story of his career
path from driver to business owner and instructor:
“HVAC/R is a great career choice because of the many
directions you can take, all of which pay great and are
solid careers anywhere in the USA. I started as a driver
for an HVAC company in San Diego almost 40 year ago and
since then I have been a service technician, service
manager, project sales, maintenance sales, service
general manager, and now owner of my own company for the
last 12 years and an HVAC instructor at Palomar
Community College at nights, training the next
generation of field service techs.”
This is echoed by Robert Lemos, of Apollo Mechanical in
Richland, Washington, “I’ve been doing service for 23
years, each day has been challenging and enjoyable at
the same time. We are a big mechanical company we enlist
our apprentices in the Sheetmetal union hall for
training. It’s awesome to teach with the iConnect
Training Unit TU-106, and the iManifold is a huge help
with identifying pressure temp/correlation. Now it’s my
turn to pay it back with the younger generation. Let’s
do this!!”
About North Park Innovations Group, Inc.
Headquartered in Ellicottville, NY, North Park
Innovations is known for the iConnect Training Units and
the iManifold, a revolutionary, patented digital
manifold. Today, the patented iManifold platform is used
by thousands of technicians in (19) countries on (5)
continents, has won numerous industry awards, and is
used in HVAC equipment commissioning by global OEMs. The
iConnect Training Units are featured in vocational
training programs across the USA and the world, helping
train new HVAC/R technicians every day.
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